For hym was levere have at his beddes heed,Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,...Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie:But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

For which he wex a litel red for shame,Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen,...That to beholde it was a noble game,How sobreliche he caste doun his yen.Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen,And let so softe it in her herte sinkeThat to herself she seyde, "Who yaf me drinke?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Al: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look?Ma Joad: We're goin' to California, ain't we? Alright then..., let's go to California.Al: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[A trip to France] will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people and manners.... My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A government deriving its energy from the will of the society, and operating, by the reason of its measures, on the understanding ...and interest of the society ... is the government for which philosophy has been searching and humanity been fighting from the most remote ages ... which it is the glory of America to have invented, and her unrivalled happiness to possess.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »